Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Pathetic Ministry

During the first conference of the Saudi intelligentsia organized by the ministry of culture, the Saudi minister of labour Ghazi Al-Gosaibi, who is also a great writer, criticized the censorship system in the country, especially all kinds of censorship on books. Dr. Al-Gosaibi said this whole system of censorship in the Internet era is pathetic!

Dr. Al-Gosaibi, who was talking in the presence of the minister of culture, said that he does not only mean the ministry of culture, but also about the unofficial censorship which is bigger and more dangerous.

Dr. Ghazi Al-Gosaibi is the former Saudi ambassador to the U.K., and some of his books are banned here in Saudi Arabia.
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